Customer Ratings & Reviews

I cannot believe how far memory has come. I have owned other crucial DDR RAM before and I had no issues in the past. This was back in the day when building your own PC was the in thing. From super loud spinning disks to diskless to now solid state chips (ie jump drives on steroids). AND they are getting smaller and smaller and smaller. Wow. Incredible engineering to stack the chip. 2 TB in such a small compact form just blows my mind. Setup was super easy. I popped open the bottom of my PC and slid the solid state drive in and fired it up. I went through the formatting and I was in. Windows 11 was easy to format. External hard drive via USB C was lightning quick. I transfered 96 GB in 5 mins. I was moving raw 4K data back and forth between my other hard drive and the portable drive via USB C with ease. No lag. Game play and saving my game data was great. No issues with using this as my main storage. Would highly recommend this product to augment your current storage needs that are demanding and require the need for speed.

Crucial is always the best option for SSD upgrade, at least for me. The new Acer Predator I bought runs hot, so I went with the 2T in lieu of the 4T. I upgrade my new computer purchase because it makes the future agonizing decision of whether to upgrade media or replace whole computer later, moot. If you have the money, Crucial is the way to go. Installation is cake, so don't pay anyone to do it for you.

The Crucial P3 Plus 2TB NVMe SSD is an excellent choice for anyone looking to upgrade their storage. Leveraging PCIe Gen 4 x4 technology, it offers impressive read and write speeds, ensuring quick boot times, fast file transfers, and smooth multitasking. Its large 2TB capacity provides ample space for games, applications, and media files, making it ideal for gamers, creatives, and professionals. Despite its high performance, the P3 Plus remains competitively priced, delivering exceptional value. With solid reliability and a simple installation process, this SSD is a fantastic option for maximizing your system’s speed and storage.

2 TB of internal SSD with fast performance and for only $124.99? Yes please. So far this is performing as expected and has zero issues. This was easy to install and recognized by BIOS and Windows. It's a great deal if looking for extra storage

The Crucial P5 is faster and more expensive than this P3 version, but as this is a PCIE4 level NVMe drive, it can support PCIE speeds. Since I was using it as an external, not in a motherboard, the speed ceiling was all in the enclosure, so it made no sense to buy anthing faster, Performance has been excellent, at a very reasonable price to two TB.

This ssd is great if you want something that is fast and affordable. I recently bought a laptop with less space purposefully, so that I could buy extra space for cheaper and install myself... it's a great ssd and easy to install I highly recommend if your more on a budget like I was.

Summary: The prices of NVMe have come down so much in the past few years. The Crucial - P3 Plus 2TB PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe is a good balance of fast speeds and reliable memory at the same time of being low cost. On several test with CrystalDisk, I was able to reach Crucial's stated read and write speeds. I would highly recommend this for anyone looking to use as their main operating system drive or additional storage. In the Box: Crucial - P3 Plus 2TB Gen 4 NVMe Hardware (screw) Manuals While most motherboards can take M.2 style NVMe drives make sure your MB can accept this form factor. Use: I used this as my spare drive on my gaming/video editing computer to keep all my working video files. It does a great job of quickly loading project files. Using CrystalDiskMark benchmarking tool I was able to get Crucial' read and write stated speeds or very close to it in some other testing. (See images for more details) I ran several test and posted a few random test results with not just 1gib testing but also 32gib. Conclusion: Crucial - P3 Plus 2TB Gen 4 NVMe is a good choice as a main or spare drive. I'd recommend this for anyone looking to get a good balance of speed and low cost.

It is always fun to test the speeds of today's latest SSD drives. They get so fast, how do you know which is the fastest. I was able to test out this drive. I have used many NVME high speed drives so have a good idea of the performance one can expect. The setup was pretty smooth. I installed in the spare slot of my desktop and used the included Acronis True Image software. This would normally be a smooth process. However it failed numerous times during the cloning process. I spent 2 hours trying to get it to move my existing ssd to this one so I did not have to reinstall anything. In the end I was unable to get Windows to boot. I had to reinstall Win 11 with the new SSD installed and then everything worked. To be fair I could have tried support in case there was something I was missing but it should just work and I have had other brands successfully work like this so I just reinstalled the OS. Finally in use it is hard to tell how fast the drive is. It peformed just as snappy as any SSD appears. I copied large files to/from. I loaded games and large .Raw files and all worked instantly. I did run a speed test against the drive that came with my Desktop and unfortunately this was slower. Most users will not notice and if this drive is cheaper then I would go for it. However if there are other brands in the same price range I would recommend checking actual reviews for speeds as this is not the fastest of their class for a PCI 4.0 SSD.

So far it's read and write speed are pretty good. I normally use this for gaming. And works quite well so far loving the product been a while with it too and no issues.

One of the best affordable NVMe SSDs on the market right now it benchmarks just about at Samsung speeds as well as any of the other big competitors for its price point and my experience with the warranty with crucial is I can work with them way easier than any of the other competitors like Samsung which creates so many hula hoops of fire just to get your warranty through that you give up whereas this one is easy you just got to keep the box and I know that's a big thing for some people but keep the darn box and packaging at least for the first year and then save it aside to throw it aside That being said works with just about every computer out there that will take a m.2 and VME SSD but you need to keep in mind that this is different than a m.2 SSD which is older technology and this will not work with those type of laptops or desktops.

Did the trick. My previous NVMe blew up. Slapped this into my pc with minimal hassle and works like a charm. I use it as a gaming drive mainly since the Drive cache is using QLC and is not as fast as my main drive. Overall it is a solid budget drive.

Good speed and ample storage of 2TB for the affordable price compared to other brands. Good for storage upgrade.

This is supposed to be part of the "budget" line of drives, but the performance is quite good. The speeds of this gen 4 drive can generally match or exceed the "mid range" gen 3 drives! This drive does not come with a heat sink, and the board is single-sided (no parts on the bottom of the board). Also, being a budget drive, I strongly suspect that it does not have a DRAM cache, but I could not confirm this and I am not going to peel the sticker off just to find out. Modern budget drive use "HMB" which means that some of your CPU DRAM is used for the cache. But the speeds are good enough for just about anybody. Sequential reads are 5GB/s and sequential writes are 4.3GB/s. You can spend more for higher speeds, but for the average user (office usage, gaming, etc.) these speeds are more than good enough. Is it worth extra money to shave 1/10 of a second off of the level loading time? Another nice feature was that the package even included a screw. You can supposedly download disk image transfer software to copy your OS onto this drive, but I did not test out this functionality.

Crucial is a reliable brand, so this SSD is excellent for storage for reasonable price. I got one for my laptop and now I have a extended storage/backup without saturate the main drive.

The Crucial P3 Plus is incredibly fast and worth the upgrade. Unboxing: In the box you get the Crucial P3 Plus and a mounting screw. There is no heatsink or thermal tape. I'm not sure if Best Buy/Crucial sell this with an included heatsink option. Fortunately my motherboard already has a heatsink for NVMe drives. Installation: It's really easy, assuming you know what you're doing. If you need to clone your old drive to the P3 Plus, it's easy to do but I did a fresh install. Performance. WOW. Mind blowing fast. The Crucial P3 Plus 2TB was faster than my WD SN850 and smoked the drive it replaced which was a WD Blue 2TB. Benchmark screenshots are uploaded but also written below WDSN850: Sequential Read 1,709Mb/s Bench 304% WDC2TB: Sequential Read 434Mb/s Bench 114% Crucial P3 Plus: Sequential Read 3,124 Mb/s Bench 478% Yes, not a typo. Wow. Wow. Wow.... The Crucial P3 plus is 1.8x faster than what I considered to be amazing performance. Games are loading at phenomenal speeds and I cannot recommend this drive highly enough. I rarely, if ever, give 5 stars but I am just blown away by the difference. This is an incredible drive and if you're ready to make the move to PCIe 4.0 you cannot fault this drive. Just. Make sure you protect it with a heatsink.

Easy install, automatically detected, compatibility and runs great.

Easy to install, value price, and fast enough for gaming and productivity use.

Great storage option and at at a great price. Fast and cheap.

Fast, easy to install, affordable. What more can one ask for?

The Crucial P3 Plus is a SSD designed with the intent of taking advantage of PCIe 4.0 speeds. Unfortunately, that is not what I experienced. Before I go further, I WOULD RECOMMEND this product because the I found a short term workaround for my issues until a firmware update becomes available. Additional details will be provided in the review. Below are my thoughts of the 2TB version using Firmware P9CR409 with a B550 motherboard. The P3 Plus advertises speeds "up to" 5000 MB/s (Sequential Read) and 4200 MB/s (Sequential Write). I understand that these values represent the ceiling, but I didn't even get close to achieving these numbers based on my CrystalDiskMark test. The numbers I topped out at were 3173 MB/s for read and 2752 MB/s for the write. These would be excellent speeds for the regular Crucial P3 (PCIe 3.0) which had a read/write of 3500 MB/s and 3000 MB/s respectively. So what's the workaround? Anytime you use a Crucial SSD then you should definitely install the Crucial Storage Executive. I'm not a proponent of bloatware, but this program did allow for me to check for firmware updates (none were available at the time) and verify the health status of my drives. The biggest benefit of this program was through a feature called "Momentum Cache". By enabling this feature through the software (which will require a restart), you turn this tiny drive into Sonic the Hedgehog by using some DRAM to give your SSD a boost that far surpasses my CrystalDiskMark scores. I turned on this feature and was instantly a happy camper. The only caveat to this feature is that "Using Momentum Cache without a battery backed power source is not recommended and you do so at your own risk". In other words, if you use this feature and a power outage occurs then you may corrupt your drive or have bigger issues if no reliable battery backup is available. No bueno. In conclusion, the P3 Plus is not getting close to the numbers listed within the description unless you use Momentum Cache. This could be fixed with a firmware update. I'm not too worried about a fix given that I found a slight workaround. Also, it may be worth to mention that this drive is not recommended for the PS5 despite being a PCIe 4.0 drive. Even the advertised speeds aren't fast enough according to Sony's recommendations.